Karen Bausman (born February 8, 1958, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American architect. Bausman is the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, the only American woman to hold both design chairs. She is principal of Karen Bausman + Associates, a New York City-based architecture firm founded in 1995.